Books Quote by Theophile Gautier

Books Are Good For Lots Of Uses, Not For Dropping In The Toilet.

— Frank Zappa

Public toilets have a duty to be accessible, poetry does not.

— Geoffrey Hill

We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.

— Edwidge Danticat

Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler.…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this…

— C. S. Lewis

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us…

— Russell Kirk

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the…

— Henry Miller

What we lack is a basic willingness to see literature as providing some kind of necessary foundation. Our society still expects schools to prepare…

— Gwee Li Sui

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

— Thomas McGuane

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next.…

— Laurie Anderson

Literature allows us to be open, to listen, and to be curious.

— Tracy K. Smith